1. What is Tsaoko?
Amomum tsaoko is the fruit of Amomum villosum of Zingiberaceae, which is pungent, mild and non-toxic. Enter spleen meridian and stomach meridian. Has the effects of eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, eliminating phlegm, stopping malaria, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation. Indications: malaria, phlegm fullness, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and dyspepsia.
2. Alias
Amomum tsao-ko, Amomum tsao-ko (applicable party for sending letters), Laokou, Amomum tsao-ko (discussion on children's health).
3. Sexual taste orientation
Pungent, hot and astringent.
Meridian tropism belongs to spleen and stomach.
4. Pharmacological effects
Antiinflammatory; Strengthen the stomach.
5. Processing and treatment
1. Wash and remove the shell, rub and sieve off the membranous aril.
2. Mash when cutting.
6. Appearance characteristics of Amomum tsao-ko
The fruit of Amomum tsao-ko is oval, 2-4.5cm long and1-2.5cm in diameter. The surface is brown or reddish brown, with three blunt edges, obvious longitudinal grooves and ridges, a cylindrical base at the top, and fruit stalks or fruit stalk marks at the base. The pericarp is tough and divided into three compartments, each compartment contains 7 ~ 24 seeds, most of which are clustered, yellowish brown or reddish brown. The smell is fragrant, pungent and spicy. It is best to be big and full, reddish brown in color and strong in smell.
7. Amomum tsaoko prescription
1. Amomum tsao-ko can also be used to treat many other diseases, such as Chaigui Amomum tsao-ko soup made of Amomum tsao-ko and Bupleurum, Cinnamomum cassia twig and other Chinese medicines. It has been used to treat 300 cases of influenza, with the total effective rate of 95.3 1% (Zhejiang Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,1993,65438+).
2. Take Amomum Tsaoko15g, terminalia chebula 5g, Kaempferia Kaempferia 5g and Cinnamomum cassia 5g, bake and grind them into fine powder, then put 5g of camphor into sesame oil125g, put it into a salt water bottle, seal and soak it for three days, and then externally apply it to treat alopecia areata, all of which are cured (journal of traditional chinese medicine,125g
3. Used together with Anemarrhena asphodeloides, it has the functions of regulating cold and heat, harmonizing exterior and interior, and treating malaria.
4, with Changshan, can strengthen the drug power of malaria interception, avoid the disadvantages of Changshan vomiting.
5, with Amomum villosum, enhance the efficacy of eliminating dampness and turbidity, warming spleen and yang, and regulating stomach and qi. When used together with Magnolia Officinalis, it can eliminate dampness and turbidity, strengthen spleen and regulate stomach, and promote qi and regulate stomach.
6, with cardamom, the two drugs are matched, each with its own strengths. It has strong functions of eliminating dampness, strengthening spleen, warming stomach, dispelling cold, promoting qi circulation, relieving pain and stopping vomiting.
8, efficacy and role
Amomum tsao-ko has a special spicy taste, which can remove fishy smell and stimulate appetite. It is a good cooking seasoning and is known as one of the "five spices" in food seasoning. Amomum tsao-ko can be used for cooking, which can remove fishy smell and improve the taste of dishes. When cooking fish and meat, it is better to use Amomum tsaoko. Put some tsaoko when stewing beef and mutton, even if the mutton is fragrant and delicious, it can drive away the fishy smell of mutton. Mix refined brine with cooked meat and dishes to enhance flavor, such as cooking beef with grass fruit; Another example is the use of Amomum tsao in Yunnan specialty chicken seals to enhance fragrance.
1, antitussive and expectorant effects: α-and β-pinene contained in this product have antitussive and expectorant effects. 1, 8- eucalyptus leaves have analgesic, antipyretic and antiasthmatic effects.
2. Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects: β -pinene has strong anti-inflammatory and antifungal effects. Geraniol has antibacterial and antifungal effects, and its minimum inhibitory concentration on Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Microsporum is 0.39mg/ml.
3, hangover: Amomum tsao has the effect of hangover, and the stomach is uncomfortable after drinking. You can soak tsaoko in water to drink, which can relieve the symptoms of stomach discomfort after drinking.
4. Other effects: small dose of geraniol can inhibit spontaneous activity in rats. Oral geraniol can inhibit gastrointestinal motility in rats, and a small amount of oral geraniol has a mild diuretic effect. Geraniol can also repel ascaris in guinea pigs.
Tsao ko and Tsao ko
Pungent and warm in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian; The efficacy is dry, wet and warm. Amomum villosum has the function of promoting qi circulation, but Amomum tsaoko has little effect. Amomum tsaoko can intercept malaria and can be used for malaria with excessive cold and dampness. However, Alpinia katsumadai has no such effect.
Amomum tsaoko and Amomum villosum
Both herbs are pungent and warm, and enter the spleen and stomach channels, which have the effects of drying dampness, promoting qi circulation and warming the middle warmer. Amomum villosum has a strong effect of promoting qi circulation, and Amomum tsaoko has a strong effect of warming and drying. Therefore, Amomum villosum can promote qi circulation, stop vomiting in middle energizer and prevent miscarriage, which is unique. Amomum tsaoko has the characteristics of intercepting malaria and can be used to treat malaria with excessive cold and dampness.
9. Preparation of prescription
1. Tsaoko drink "Applicable prescription for sending letters"): Tsaoko, licorice, fried Sanguisorba officinalis and Fructus Aurantii. Treat disharmony between stomach cold and heat, red and white dysentery, diarrhea due to latent heat, dirty poison and bloody stool.
2. Shuntai Powder (new prescription): this product, Rhizoma Corydalis, talc and Trogopterori. Treat fetal gas.
3. Prescription for treating abdominal distension and pain (Renzhai Zhi Zhi Prescription): two Amomum tsao-ko, decocted in wine.
4. Guo Fu decoction ("Jisheng recipe"): Amomum tsao-ko and aconite are shared equally. Ginger, jujube and water decoction. Take it before the onset of malaria. Treat spleen cold, malaria not healed, cold onset, less fever, blue face, no food, or loose stool's polyuria.
5. Amomum Tsaoko Drink (Shenfang): Amomum Tsaoko, Perilla frutescens, Alpinia officinarum, Ligusticum Chuanxiong, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Glycyrrhrizae Radix. Treatment of cold and heat, initial recovery of malaria. Take this to eat and recuperate the spleen.
6. Green Peel Decoction (Jishengfang): Green Peel, Magnolia Officinalis, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Tsaoko, Bupleurum, Poria, Pinellia ternata, Scutellaria baicalensis and Glycyrrhiza uralensis. For malaria, the pulse is rapid, but the heat is not cold, or the heat is more than the cold, the diaphragm is full of food, the mouth is bitter, the tongue is dry, upset, sore throat, Huang Chi in urine and bad stool.
7. Dayuanyin (Plague Prescription): Areca catechu, Magnolia Officinalis, Amomum Tsaoko, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Scutellariae Radix and Glycyrrhizae Radix. At the beginning of treating the plague, people hated cold first and then heat. It will be hot instead of cold in the future. For the first two or three days, their pulse is not heavy, and they have a fever day and night, which is of great benefit to them and harmful to their heads and bodies.
10, efficacy indication
1. Eliminating dampness and dispelling cold: "Materia Medica Justice" says: "Tsao-ko is pungent and warm, and good at eliminating cold and dampness, so it is the main medicine for the spleen and stomach." Can be used for treating emesis, diarrhea and abdominal pain.
2, phlegm malaria: "Materia Medica Justice" day "According to haze, fog penetrates the evil of yin and dampness, which hurts the qi of Qingyang the most, so use warm and dry incense to cure haze and dampness. That's what Amomum tsao-ko means to treat malaria. Cao Guoshan washes wet sputum and vibrates Yang. " This product has the function of eliminating phlegm and stopping malaria, so it can be used to treat malaria and eliminate phlegm.
3. Xiaoshi Huayu: This product is effective in treating abdominal distension due to cold and dampness. The disease is mostly caused by cold evil, or living in wet places for a long time; Or eat unclean cold drinks, combine internal and external, cold and dampness invade the middle energizer, and the spleen and stomach are out of balance. Clinically common: abdominal distension, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, thirst, greasy tongue coating and slow pulse. This crystal is pungent and cool; Wet and cold, stomach acceptable, spleen healthy; Can eliminate food accumulation, can remove the abdomen.
1 1, appraisal application
1, Amomum tsao, Amomum tsao "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" said, "Amomum tsao, Amomum tsao, each book contains the same smell, and has no different effects, so it can warm the middle and dispel the cold. However, if the smell of the dagger is floating, it will be effective to bring it directly into the sick place. " Amomum tsao-ko and Amomum tsao-ko are pungent and warm, belonging to spleen and stomach meridians; The efficacy is dry, wet and warm. But the difference is that Amomum villosum has the function of promoting qi, while Amomum tsao-ko has little effect on promoting qi; Amomum tsaoko can intercept malaria and can be used for malaria with excessive cold and dampness. However, Alpinia katsumadai has no such effect.
2. Amomum tsaoko and Amomum villosum are pungent and warm, and belong to the spleen and stomach; It also has the effects of eliminating dampness, promoting qi circulation and warming the middle warmer. The difference is that Amomum villosum has a strong effect on promoting qi, while Amomum tsao-ko has a much weaker effect on promoting qi. The warming and drying effect of Amomum tsaoko is stronger than that of Amomum villosum. Amomum villosum has a strong function of promoting qi circulation, so it can promote qi circulation and neutralize middle energizer to achieve the effect of stopping vomiting and preventing miscarriage, which is its uniqueness. Amomum tsao-ko is dry and damp, dispelling cold, and has the specialty of intercepting malaria, which can be used to treat malaria with excessive cold and dampness.
12, usage and dosage
Oral administration: 2.4-4.5g, decocted; I still took the pills and dispersed them.
13, compatibility should be avoided.
And proper taboos.
1, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Anemarrhena asphodeloides;
2. Avoid iron (Compendium of Materia Medica).
3. "If you spend a lot of money to buy mandarin ducks, you should quit if you are old, weak, sick and disabled." (Compendium of Materia Medica) Those who are deficient in qi or blood and have no pathogenic cold and dampness are forbidden to take it.
Compatibility application
1, used together with Anemarrhena asphodeloides, has the functions of regulating cold and heat, regulating exterior and interior, and has a good therapeutic effect on malaria syndrome. The evidence shows that the sun is wet, turbid, boring and sweaty. As "Compendium of Materia Medica" says, "Tsaoko and Anemarrhena together can cure malaria, cold and heat, one yin and one yang can cure the cold of Taiyin, and Anemarrhena can cure the fire of Yangming."
2, with Changshan, it can play a synergistic role and strengthen the medicinal properties of malaria. In addition, due to the side effect of vomiting caused by taking Changshan, Tsaoko can relieve dryness and stomach and stop vomiting. The combination of the two can avoid the abuse of vomiting caused by Changshan, which is beneficial to better play the role of malaria control. Clinically, it can be used to treat all kinds of malaria, especially malaria caused by miasma, filth and humidity in Shan Lan.
3. Compatibility with Amomum villosum has a synergistic effect to enhance drug efficacy, and has strong effects of eliminating dampness, resolving turbidity, warming spleen yang and regulating stomach qi. Clinically, it is especially suitable for sensitive malaria or warm malaria caused by miasma, except 15 chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, unfavorable abdominal pain, viscosity and so on caused by cold, dampness, turbid phlegm and stagnation of middle energizer.
4. Cooperate with Magnolia Officinalis, help each other, eliminate dampness and turbidity, strengthen spleen and stomach, get twice the result with half the effort, properly lift, improve temper and lower stomach qi, and complement each other. It is a good medicine for eliminating dampness and transporting spleen, promoting qi and regulating stomach, and is most suitable for spleen yang, chest and diaphragm congestion, abdominal distension, vomiting and nausea, anorexia and light mouth.
5. When used together with cardamom, each has its own advantages, and has strong effects of eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen, warming the stomach and dispelling cold, promoting circulation of qi and relieving pain, regulating breath and stopping vomiting. It is suitable for cold pain in the stomach, nausea, belching, sticky mouth, poor appetite, thick and white tongue coating caused by stagnation of dampness and spleen and stomach.
14, detoxification scented tea
1, carnation improves blood circulation
Carnation scented tea is fragrant and has the functions of improving blood circulation, eliminating toxins in the body, promoting human metabolism and regulating endocrine disorders. After work, soaking a cup of carnation scented tea in your spare time can also help you calm down and abandon impetuousness.
2, honeysuckle tea heat and detoxification
Honeysuckle tea tastes sweet and cold. In addition to treating acute virus attack, acute tonsillitis and other diseases, making tea with honeysuckle and rhubarb in a ratio of three to one, and adding appropriate amount of honey to taste, can play the role of clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening intestines and expelling toxins, improving constipation and slimming the lower abdomen.
3. Verbena tea can relax the nerves
Verbena tea can not only eliminate toxins in the body, but also strengthen the metabolic function of the liver, relax nerves, help digestion, improve abdominal qi, relieve migraine and lose weight. It should be noted that pregnant women should be forbidden to eat.
4. Lily tea moistens the lungs and detoxifies
Lily tea is slightly sweet and fragrant, which is harmful to lily. Drinking lily tea can clear the heart and soothe the nerves, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and expectorate more blood. Lily tea, except for the first time, has certain detoxification and beauty-caring effects.
5. Rose tea improves dry skin.
Roses are warm, can cool blood, accelerate human metabolism, promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis, balance endocrine, clear heart, soothe the nerves, tonify qi and blood, improve dry skin, and also have a good effect on treating facial spots. Rose tea is most suitable for women who are obese due to endocrine disorders.
6. Chrysanthemum tea can improve eyesight and clear liver.
Chrysanthemum tea is slightly cold, and has excellent effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, improving eyesight and clearing liver, relieving headache, expelling wind and dissipating heat. There are two kinds of common chrysanthemum tea: Chrysanthemum morifolium and Chrysanthemum morifolium, among which Chrysanthemum morifolium tastes sweeter and has better effect of clearing away heat and relieving sore throat than Chrysanthemum morifolium. Gongju's function of nourishing liver and improving eyesight is more obvious, and Gongju Lycium barbarum tea is necessary for computer families to protect their eyes.
7, lavender tea soothe the nerves and relieve pain
Lavender tea is an ideal flower tea for improving migraine, stabilizing digestive system, expelling toxin and beautifying face. Putting a cup of lavender tea on your desk can not only relieve stress, calm your nerves, help improve sleep quality, but also play the role of expelling wind and calming your nerves and eliminating flatulence, dizziness and diarrhea.